While many of the goals of this analysis remain consistent with the inaugural version, there are three additional goals which themselves were born from readers of the initial report. The original goals remain:

Present benchmarks for a wide variety of live chat operational practices

Test the statistical causality of live chat operational best practices

The additional goals in this updated version are:

Monitor and report on changes to key benchmarks since the first report

Calculate benchmarks for higher traffic sites

Identify and present benchmarks for elite users of live chat

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Live Chat Performance Benchmarks, 2012: Because our products are provided through a software-as-a-service model, our infrastructure includes aggregated data from thousands and thousands of live chat customers. This massive base of real-world data has enabled us to extract the findings presented in this document.Preview Whitepaper

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Holiday Readiness Handbook 2011: This whitepaper marks the second year of our attempt to uncover "from-the-trenches" ideas about live chat tuning.Preview Whitepaper